The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-14
aENEnAL NEWS MOVIES.
Items Of Interest Gathered rrom Various
Quarters.


Quarters.
b a conhagration in Clarksvile, Tenn,
, caused a loss of $250,000
; Montgomery has postponed her inter
State drill until May, 1888.
The prohibition amendment in Michigan
is surely defeated by about 5000.
General Logan's novel, "The Volunteer
Soldier, " will be published early in May.
Colonel lngersoll is to write his religious
impressions of DR.. McGlynn's theology.
Hygeia Hotel, Virgta, sold for 1852, 500.
1t was bought by Mrs. Phoebus.
The work of evicting delinquent tenants
| will begin on Lord Lansdownc's estate on
April 90.
Prince Alexander of Battcnberg has
again declined to be reelected as ruler of
Bulgaria.
There is no apparent change in the siua-
ton of the cotton handlers strike in New
Orleans.
The Texas Legislature has adopted rcso-
l4tlons expressing sympathy with the pco-
pie of Ireland
A Legislative committee has been ap-
pointed to meet a committee of the foreign
bondholdcrs Of Virginia.
Delegates representing 10000 Welsh
miners met ut RhOnda and adopted a rCsO-
luton denouncing the Irish coercion bill.
At Memphis, Tenn, on Sunday. nine
persons were seriously but not fatally poi
Soncd by eating lcc'cr""m at a dinner party.
The Secretary of the Interstate Com
mcrce Commission will receive $3, 800 per
year.
Ben Pcrlcy Poorc's "Reminiscences.
GIlOtpu iIyn hn, 4
that author but $4,000.
hX-i'rcsdcnt Jefferson Davis will probaT
bly, deliver an address before the William
Jewell College, Kansas City, Mo.
According to Congressman Townsend.
Sunset Cox will be the next chairman of
INC ways and means committee
Col. George Johnstonc, charged with the
murder of John B. Jones at Ncwbcyry, has
pcch admitted to bail i'll the sum of 81 800.
Secretary Whitney has decided to push
|" completion the work on the cruisers At,
hnta, Boston and Chicago.
President Cleveland is said to be saving
three lifths Of his salary for use when the
rainy day of the proved dawns.
The wholesale boot and shoe house Of s.
y. BrlCkhOuSc IL Co.. Norfolk Va. has
assigned. Liabilities SOC, 900: assets above
that amount.
a large tract Of Mississippi pine lands.
comprising about 30, 600 acres, has been
purchased by party of Michigan capital
lists.
-Four thousand cmigrants were started
west from Castle Garden, New York. Sun
DAY, being accumulation of arrivals Since
Friday.
The prevailing drought in Texas. added
I" the results of last years drought, is ca,ls-
'ng the Legislature to consider the suspcn.
sion Of tax collections.
Plans have been perfected for councctinr
'hG Norfolk and Western with the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad lines. This is
said to be big thing for Norfolk.
George Westinghouse adds another $1OO
olt OF his own pocket to the death benefit
Of 500 paid by the Westinghouse Air
Brake Company Employees Relief Society.
The first days canvass for funds to hold
an Interstate drill in Montgomery, Ala,
IN June resulted in the raising of %lO, 900
| lie whole amount TO be raised is $50 ,OON.
Senator Palmer, Of Michigan, is going
10 bolster up his boom by buiIdine, n hail
Tor the G. ~. II. posts of Detroit TO use
The Secretary Of the Navy has invited
sealed proposals from Shipbuildcrs of the
United States for building five new war
vessels.
A bill was passed by the Senate of Penn
SylYanla providing that punishment for
murder in the first degree may be death by
the use OF electricity.
Major Edwards, who wants to lie N!oyor
OF Fargo, Oak, is one of the hcnvics
$la!rSmcn in the country. lie tips the beam
a; j3i pounds.
EX-Untcd States Treasurer Jordan. who
crossed the ocean with cN Secretary Man.
hihg, passes most Of his time with the lat.
Ter at BOumCmOuth
Mrs. Lamar has finally returned from her
N'Hlt TO Georgia, and the Secretary of thc
| interior can again he approached by callers
VIII" iclt their rcVolvCrS ut home
John G. SaXcs later life derived no adj
uiiiOhal sweetness from the fact that he
once received $1,000 per year for writing
one poem II week for the New York LcdgcF.
The dwelling of Mr. f. j. Moody, six
mllCS above Marion, was burned Monday.
while MIR. Moody and his son were both in
Marion. Loss about %3, 900; insuronc,
said to be 81, 900.
The United States grand Jury in San
Francisco, Cal, has returned forty indict
mcnls OF conspiracy and perjury aguins
land swindlcrS, including several Fedora
officers
On account of the report that negro mill
tary companies will be admitted to the na
tionnl drill, it is probable that the Capita
Light Guards Of Jackson, will withdraw
from the drill.
Arthur Sullivan, Il yorag New Yorl
book.kccpcr, who was arrested for stealth,
church property from st. Stephens Churci
ON March IS, pleaded guilty, and was sen
fenced to six years in the State prison.
One of the most munlfccnt recent Gift
to churches is that of the ROckafCllc
brothers, John ID. and Willam-S75 OOC
in ALTO the Tabernacle Baptist Church O
New York.
There is "rcliablc" rumor from the na
uonal capital TO the effect that cX-Scnat0
Alahonc is TO succeed the unsophisticatc,
Jones as chairman Of the Republican ma
tiOnal com ml;tcc
! Lord Randolph Churchill says tina; ri
resignation resulted in the direct saving o
81 400, ,OO0 while opposing the scandalou
waste of public money in the War and Ad
miralty Departments.
The Swiss government has resolved t
| ne. vim L., II.